bakteri Salmonella typhi tekitatud, palavikuga kulgev eluohtlik üldhaigus, kus toiduga organismi sattunud bakterid levivad hematogeenselt eri elunditesse ja kus haigustunnusena esineb mh. kõhulahtisus
a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)
Most major epidemics of typhoid fever have been caused by the pollution of public water supplies. ... The prevention of typhoid fever depends mainly on proper sewage treatment, filtration and chlorination of water, and exclusion of carriers from employment in food industries and restaurants.
